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Photo: John Olson’s famous photo of wounded Marines being evacuated during the Battle of Hue in February 1968. John Olson/The LIFE Images Collection, via Getty Images This post originally appeared at the nytimes.com. A

Photo: A clergyman joining those burning draft cards at Arlington Street Church in Boston, October 1967. Joe Runci/The Boston Globe, via Getty Images This article originally appeared at the nytimes.com. By Michael Stewart

Hurricane Maria led to a host of new plans to fix island barrios plagued by chronic flooding. A look at the Vietnam neighborhood shows why they may never be achieved. By Michael Kimmelman Photographs by Christopher

This article originally posted at DemocracyNow.org. The death of George H.W. Bush has dominated the U.S. news for days, but little attention has been paid to the defining event of Bush’s first year in office: the

This article originally appeared at the nytimes.com. The U.S. has deported Vietnamese refugees in violation of a 2008 agreement. Now it is indefinitely detaining many others. By Eric Tang and Viet Thanh Nguyen Mr. Tang is

Abstract: This is the first study to focus on Vietnam-Palestine relations from 1967 to 1975. In American foreign policy, Vietnam and Palestine became entangled via their allegedly shared susceptibility to Soviet influence. Such

Photo: UVO-0009 Vietnam Era US CS Gas Grenade (inert, expended) This post originally appeared at DemocracyNow.org. As the Trump administration continues to defend firing tear gas into crowds of asylum seekers, we look at the

Photographs of victims of the Khmer Rouge at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Thursday. Credit Adam Dean for The New York Times This article originally appeared at the nytimes.com. By Hannah Beech. PHNOM

By Mark Bowyer Not surprisingly, Vietnam is a nation of war memorials. What is surprising though is that Vietnam probably has fewer memorials than many countries that have suffered far less in war. On the banks of the Perfume

Originally Posted by Arnold Isaacs at 7:44AM, November 08, 2018 at Tomdispatch.com “I’m going to Saigon,” said Secretary of Defense James Mattis last month before correcting himself. “Ho Chi Minh City —

oversight sàigòn november 1-2, 1963 tapped into conversations between the general staff, we listened to the chaos of the bloody coup d’etat in the ritual dying of the cut off palace guard and the manic hide and

This post originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. By Nick and Tam Turse. It was nearly sunset on Easter Saturday when I met Marie Dz’dza. She was sitting on a set of steps in a hospital compound in the town of Bunia. Near her

This post originally appeared at TomDispatch.com By William Astore In June, Austin “Scott” Miller, the special-ops general chosen to be the 17th U.S. commander in Afghanistan, appeared before the Senate Armed Services

My weekend at the Presidio in San Francisco for the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Presidio 27 Mutiny Presidio 27 Commemoration Playlists Saturday October 13th, 7-9 PM Presidio 27 Panel Discussion at the Presidio

Various explosive devices found at the construction site in Quang Tri (Photo: nhandan.com.vn) VNA LÚC : SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2018 – 17:52:00 This post originally appeared at en.vietnamplus.vn. Quang Tri (VNA) – A team

International audience: Ngọc’s book Sketches for a Portrait of Hà Nội has attracted the interest of many readers including foreigners. Photos Đoàn Tùng This article originally appeared at vietnamnews.vn. By Hà Nguyễn

FULL DISCLOSURE: TOWARD AN HONEST COMMEMORATION OF THE AMERICAN WAR IN VIET NAM Becky Luening Susan Schnall Initially formed in 2013 by members of Veterans For Peace, the VietNam: Full Disclosure campaign (VNFD) has been

Photo: Deputy foreign ministry spokesperson Nguyễn Phương Trà responded to questions from the media during a press conference held in Hà Nội on Thursday. — VNA/VNS Photo Dương Giang This article originally appeared

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The Full Disclosure campaign is a Veterans For Peace effort to speak truth to power and keep alive the antiwar perspective on the American war in Viet Nam — which is now approaching a series of 50th anniversary events. It represents a clear alternative to the Pentagon’s current efforts to sanitize and mythologize the Vietnam war and to thereby legitimize further unnecessary and destructive wars.

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This Month in History: 1969

February First trial of draft resistors known as the Buffalo 9. Around 150 University of Buffalo students and faculty picket the U.S. Courthouse, chanting “Free the Nine — The Trial’s a Crime”. Defendants argue that it was necessary to resist an “immoral, illegal, racist, politically insane war on the Vietnamese people.” Charges include assaulting federal officers, as well as draft evasion. The jury is unable to reach a verdict on several of the defendants but Bruce Beyer is convicted and receives a three-year sentence. Beyer later goes to Canada and then Sweden to help organize fellow resistors and deserters.

February Fort Gordon – Pfc. Dennis Davis editor of (the antiwar newspaper) Last Harass) is given an undesirable discharge.

February 14 The first three of 27 Gls charged with mutiny at the Presidio are found guilty and sentenced to 14, 15, and 16 years at hard labor by a court martial at the San Francisco Presidio stockade (see entry for October 14, 1968). By this time, three of those charged (Blake, Mather, and Pawlowski) had escaped to Canada. On appeal, the long sentences for mutiny were voided by the Court of Military Review in June 1970, and reduced to short sentences for willful disobedience of a superior officer. Rowland, for example, was released in 1970 after a year and a half imprisonment. See The Unlawful Concert by Fred Gardner for a fuller description of the case, as well as entry for October 14, 1968.

February 20 Tacoma – the Shelter Half coffee house’s business license is revoked. See October 1968 entry.

February 22-23 NLF attack 110 targets throughout South Vietnam, including Saigon.

February 25 36 U.S. Marines are killed by NVA (PAVN or VPA) who raid their base camp near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).

2016 National Book Award Finalist, Viet Thanh Nguyen:

“All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory . . . . Memory is haunted, not just by ghostly others but by the horrors we have done, seen, and condoned, or by the unspeakable things from which we have profited.”